1. Introduction

This document contains information about installing the XFree86 binaries
provided by The XFree86 Project.

The XFree86 binaries that we provide for UNIX-like OS's (Linux, the
BSDs, Solaris, etc) are packaged in a platform-independent gzipped tar
format, aka "tarballs," identified by the .tgz suffix. Along
with the binaries we provide a customized version of the GNU tar utility
called "extract" and an installation script. We recommend that these
be used to install the binaries. (The source for this customized version
of GNU tar can be found in the XFree86 CVS repository's "utils" module,
and from our ftp site.)